Senior Business Analyst - Planning & Manufacturing | SAP / IBP / S&OP
Posted: 08-07-2026
Company: Mackenzie Jones IT
Type: Permanent
Reference: 225346848
Type: Permanent
Reference: 225346848
Job Description:
Senior Business Analyst - Planning & Manufacturing | SAP ECC6 / S/4HANA / IBP / S&OPPermanent
c.£90k - £95k + £7.2k Car Allowance + Up to 25% Bonus + Benefits Package
Location: Weybridge Surrey (Hybrid - 3 Days Per Week Onsite)
Must be Eligible to work in the UK.
About You
You'll be an exceptional Senior Business Analyst with extensive Business Analysis & Business Partnering experience, together with a proven track record of working with senior stakeholders across Supply Chain Planning & Manufacturing. You'll thrive in stakeholder-facing environments, leading workshops, gathering requirements & shaping future-state business processes.
Gravitas & credibility to engage with senior stakeholders. Ability to lead Business Analysis activities across several strategic transformation programmes, helping shape future-state business processes from discovery & blueprinting through to implementation.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead Business Analysis activities across large-scale Supply Chain Planning & Manufacturing transformation programmes.
- Play a key role across several strategic transformation programmes, including IBP, MES & PLM initiatives.
- Continuous improvement across Planning, Manufacturing & Quality Management capabilities.
- Involved from the early stages of programmes, facilitating workshops, gathering requirements, defining future-state business processes and helping shape solution design alongside senior business stakeholders and Solution Architects.
- Build strong business partnerships with senior stakeholders across Supply Chain Planning, Manufacturing & IT.
- Facilitate workshops, gather business requirements and define future-state business processes.
- Translate business requirements into scalable technology solutions.
- Challenge existing processes & identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Work closely with Solution Architects & Technology teams throughout the solution lifecycle.
- Support multiple strategic transformation programmes across Europe.
- Drive the development of business cases, ensuring delivery of measurable business value.
- Lead system implementation activities, including Testing, User Acceptance & Business Readiness.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams & third-party partners to deliver high-quality solutions.
- Manage & prioritise business change through governance forums.
- Provide leadership, coaching & mentoring to Business Analysts - through either direct line management & matrix leadership.
- Significant Business Analysis experience within complex enterprise environments.
- Business Analysis experience from discovery & blueprinting through to implementation.
- Business Partnering with senior stakeholders across Supply Chain Planning & Manufacturing.
- Stakeholder engagement, workshop facilitation & requirements gathering.
- End-to-end Supply Chain lifecycle processes - ability to advise & consult.
- Planning, Manufacturing & Quality Management business processes.
- SAP - experience working within SAP ECC6 or SAP S/4HANA or SAP-enabled enterprise environments.
- SAP IBP, S&OP, or comparable Planning & Supply Chain solutions - SAP APO, Kinaxis, RapidResponse, OMP, Blue Yonder.
- Supporting SAP Production Planning (PP), Quality Management (QM), Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) or Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) would be highly advantageous.
- Collaborative approach & forward-thinking.
- Excellent analytical & problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders.
- Experience within FMCG, Manufacturing, Consumer Goods, Retail or other complex manufacturing environments is desirable.